Cd with photos booklet
Release date: 16.11.2012
Retail price: 10 euro including shipping
to buy send an e-mail to: ozkyesound@yahoo.it
A Proposal for T.
These works originated in my first visit to Topolo in 2010. While working on my piece there I took the opportunity to separately record each of the players in what would become the You Know Sextet (well not including me that is). When I returned to New York I spent time with the recordings and made a five tape pieces â one for each performer. I returned in 2012 to Topolo and we were able to perform each piece with the musician it was composed for.
This download release presents both the original tape only version as well as the live recorded version for pre-recorded material and performer. The pre-recorded material in performance was modified during rehearsals as the original material was somewhat dense. So this was an opportunity to in fact have two sets of pieces. I hope the listener enjoys and I want to thank Massimo Croce for his interest in releasing this, Moreno, Donatella and the whole Topolo family. And of course the musicians who were so integral in making this happen: Marta Hari, Veronika Vitazkova, Antonio Della Marina, Michele Spanghero and Sandro Carta. My deepest love and respect.).
Al Margolis (if, Bwana)
http://www.ifbwana.com/
http://www.pogus.com/
Al Margolis has been an activist in the 1980s American cassette underground through his cassette label Sound of Pig Music; was co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he continues to run. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Joan Osborne, Monique Buzzartè, Katherine Liberovskaya, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David First, and Dave Prescott, among others.
Antonio Della Marina is an Italian electronic composer and sound artist, who for several years has focused on working with sinusoids. Clearly influenced by the minimalist avant-garde of the American east coast in the sixties and seventies, his work exploits the physical properties of sounds and the use of microtonal tuning systems. Della Marina uses mathematical abstractions and custom built sound generators to shape his compositions which are offered in the form of sonorous sound sculptures. Since 1998 he has been active in sound art through concerts, lectures and sound installations, he has exposed his music in art galleries and international festivals all around Europe.
Marta Vigna, harpist from Udine, Master of Arts at Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria) in 2009, and graduated in Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation in 2012, has developped a particular taste for sound quality and forays into different genres (pop, rock, improvisation). In the last few years she has explored the field of free improvisation in solo or ensemble, often in contact with other arts (poetry, painting, acting). Together with Michele Spaghero and Sandro Carta she fouded the Tribil Trio, she's part of the contemporary music ensemble Utopic Blok (first Italian performance of Kolme puuta, kolme poikaa by the Finnish composer Olli Mustonen) and of the TMO - Topolovska Minimalna Orkestra. Besides, she recorded and performed the first première of "Fragmet-azioni per arpa concertante ensemble" by D. Terranova, and took part soundtracks for in films, audibooks and documentaries (National Geographics). Since 2010 is resident artist at Stazione di Topolò/Postaja Topolove.
Michele Spanghero sound and visual artist Graduated in Modern Literature at the University of Trieste, has also attended workshops in electronic and improvised music, sound design and video making. He has exhibited and performed in different international contexts such as museums, galleries, clubs and festivals in Italy, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and USA. In 2008 he has participated in a one-month artist residency program in MoKS - Mooste (Estonia). His discs have been released for several labels such as Dedalus Records, headphonica, Palomar Records, Gruenrekorder and MiraLoop
Veronika Vitàzkovà, studies at the University for music and performing arts in Vienna in the class of Univ.prof.Hansgeorg Schmeiser. She finished her studies at Conservatory in Bratislava in the class of Prof. MartaBraunsteinerova in june 2011. She took part and won in national competitions and in the year 2005 she played as a soloist with Slovak Philharmonic. At the Competition of Slovak Conservatories she gained 3rd and 1st prizes (2008 and 2010), at the international competition Flautiada 3rd and 2nd prize (2009, 2011). In the year 2009 she played as a soloist with Bratislava Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. She is attending masterclasses, workshops and seminars with: Marta Braunsteinerovà, Katalin Kramarics-Stefula, Hansgeorg Schmeiser Jan Ostry, Christian Plouvier, Brook de Wetter-Smith, Wally Hase, Paul Meisen, Yossi Arnheim, Alja Velkaverh, Mattia Petrilli, Philippe Boucly, Jean-Louis Beaumadier, Herve Hotier etc. Veronika played in Central European Initiative Youth Orchestra (2007,2009), Bratislava Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and in Radio symphony orchestra in Vienna (irish whistle) in 2010. She playesbesides classical music also other styles and genres: irish music, rock, world music and improvisation (she took part in Stazione diTopolo 2010, 2011 and 2012).
Self-taught musician and trumpet player from Nuoro, Sandro Carta studied improvisation following seminars held by Paolo Fresu. He plays in various formations of Oberkrainer music (Trio tocai, Popotnikj) and in some contemporary music groups including the TMO (Topoloska minimalna orkestra) and the Tribil Trio. In 2006 he collaborated with the singer Elisa on the soundtrack for the film Lintver . In 2011 he created soundscapes for the International Festival of Poetry. He has performed in various Italian theaters including Rimini, Trieste, Gorizia, Milan (aired live by RADIO RAI in September 2010), as well as in Slovenia, Austria and France.
Graphic Designe/Photos Maria Silvano
http://www.mariasilvano.com/
Special Thanks:
Stazione di Topolò- Postaja Topolove,
Andrea Blaseting,
Cosimo Miorelli
Live recordings Valerio Bergnach
Cd with photos booklet
Release date: 16.11.2012
Retail price: 10 euro including shipping
to buy send an e-mail to: ozkyesound@yahoo.it
